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Hindustan Unilever Limited Unilever PLC Unilever N.V DRAFT LETTER OF OFFER THIS DOCUMENT IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION This Draft Letter of Offer is sent to you as a shareholder(s) of Hindustan Unilever Limited. If you require any clarifications about the action to be taken, you may consult either your stock broker or investment consultant or the Manager to the Open Offer or the Registrar to the Open Offer. In case you have recently sold your Shares in Hindustan Unilever Limited, please hand over this Draft Letter of Offer and the accompanying Form of Acceptance-cum-Acknowledgement and Transfer Deed to the member of Stock Exchange through whom the said sale was effected. VOLUNTARY CASH OPEN OFFER AT INR 600 (Indian Rupees Six Hundred Only) PER FULLY PAID-UP EQUITY SHARE (the “Open Offer Price”) Pursuant to The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011 and subsequent amendments thereof (the “SEBI (SAST) Regulations, 2011”) TO ACQUIRE 487,004,772 fully paid-up equity shares of face value INR 1 each representing 22.52% of the Voting Share Capital OF Hindustan Unilever Limited Registered Office: Unilever House, B. D. Sawant Marg, Chakala, Andheri East, Mumbai 400 099 Telephone: +91 22 39830000; Fax: +91 22 28249438 (the “Target Company”) BY Unilever PLC Registered Office: Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside CH62 4ZD, United Kingdom Telephone: +44 20 78225252 Fax: +44 20 78225951 (the “Acquirer”) ALONG WITH Unilever N.V. Registered Office: Weena 455, PO Box 760, 3000 DK Rotterdam, The Netherlands Telephone: +31 10 2174000; Fax: +31 10 2174798 (as person acting in concert with the Acquirer and referred to as the “PAC”) Notes: 1. This Open Offer is being made pursuant to Regulation 6 of the SEBI (SAST) Regulations, 2011. 2. This Open Offer is not conditional upon any minimum level of acceptance in terms of Regulation 19(1) of SEBI (SAST) Regulations, 2011. 3. As of the date of this Draft Letter of Offer, to the best of the knowledge of the Acquirer and the PAC, there are no statutory approvals required by the Acquirer and/or the PAC to complete this Open Offer. However, in case of any statutory approvals being required by the Acquirer and/or the PAC at a later date before the closure of the tendering period, the Open Offer shall be subject to all such statutory approvals. Non-resident Indians (“NRI”) and overseas corporate bodies (“OCB”) Shareholders, if any, must obtain all requisite approvals required to tender the Shares held by them pursuant to the Open Offer and submit such approvals along with the Form of Acceptance-cum-Acknowledgement and other documents required to accept this Open Offer. 4. This Open Offer is not a competing offer in terms of Regulation 20 of the SEBI (SAST) Regulations, 2011. 5. Upward revision/withdrawal, if any, of the Open Offer would be informed by way of a public announcement in the same newspapers where the original Detailed Public Statement (“DPS”) has appeared. The Acquirer and the PAC are permitted to revise the Open Offer Price upwards only at any time prior to the last three working days before the commencement of the tendering period i.e. up to 18 June 2013. Such revised Open Offer Price would be payable for all the Shares validly tendered anytime during the tendering period of the Open Offer. 6. There has been no competing offer as of the date of this Draft Letter of Offer. 7. A copy of the Public Announcement (“PA”), the DPS and this Draft Letter of Offer (including Form of Acceptance-cum-Acknowledgment) is also available on SEBI’s website: (www.sebi.gov.in). Manager to the Open Offer Registrar to the Open Offer Karvy Computershare Private Limited HSBC Securities and Capital Markets (India) Private Limited Plot No 17 to 24, Vithalrao Nagar, 52/60 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Hi-Tech City Road, Madhapur, Fort, Mumbai 400 001 Hyderabad 500081 Telephone: +91 22 22681703 / 1560 Telephone: +91 40 2342 0818 – 828 / Toll free no: 1-800-3454-001 Fax: +91 22 2263 1984 Fax: +91 40 23431551 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Contact Person: Ms. Tanu Singh / Mr. Mayank Sharma Contact Person: Mr. Muralikrishna SEBI Registration Number: INM000010353 SEBI Registration Number: INR000000221 OPEN OFFER OPENS ON: 21 JUNE 2013 OPEN OFFER CLOSES ON: 4 JULY 2013 SCHEDULE OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES RELATING TO THE OPEN OFFER ACTIVITY DAY AND DATE PA Date Tuesday, 30 April 2013 DPS Date Wednesday, 8 May 2013 Last date for public announcement of a competing open offer being made Wednesday, 29 May 2013 Identified Date* Friday, 7 June 2013 Last date by which the Letter of Offer will be dispatched to the shareholders Friday, 14 June 2013 Last date for upward revision of Open Offer Price Tuesday, 18 June 2013 Last date by which an independent committee of the board of directors of the Target Company shall give its Wednesday, 19 June 2013 recommendation Issue opening advertisement to be published Thursday, 20 June 2013 Date of commencement of tendering period Friday, 21 June 2013 Date of expiry of tendering period Thursday, 4 July 2013 Last date for communication of rejection / acceptance and payment of consideration for applications accepted / return Thursday, 18 July 2013 of unaccepted Share certificates * Date falling on the 10th Working Day prior to the commencement of tendering period, for the purpose of determining the Shareholders (as defined hereinafter) to whom the Letter of Offer shall be sent. All Shareholders (whether registered or unregistered) of the Target Company are eligible to participate in the Open Offer any time before the closure of the tendering period. 1 RISK FACTORS A. Risks relating to the Open Offer 1. As of the date of this Draft Letter of Offer, to the best of the knowledge of the Acquirer and the PAC, there are no statutory approvals required by the Acquirer and/or the PAC to complete this Open Offer. However, in case of any statutory approvals being required by the Acquirer and/or the PAC at a later date before the Closure of the Tendering Period, the Open Offer shall be subject to all such approval(s). In case of delay in the Open Offer, due to non-receipt of any such statutory approvals, as per Regulation 18(11) of the SEBI (SAST) Regulations, 2011, SEBI may, if satisfied that non-receipt of approvals was not attributable to any willful default, failure or neglect on the part of the Acquirer and/or the PAC to diligently pursue such approvals, grant an extension of time for the purpose of completion of the Open Offer subject to the Acquirer and/or the PAC agreeing to pay interest to the public shareholders for delay beyond 10 Working Days at such rate as may be specified by SEBI from time to time. Provided where the statutory approvals extends to some but not all Shareholders, the Acquirer and/or the PAC have the option to make payment to such Shareholders in respect of whom no statutory approvals are required in order to complete the Open Offer. NRI and OCB Shareholders, if any, must obtain all requisite approvals required for tendering the Shares held by them pursuant to the Open Offer and submit such approvals along with the Form of Acceptance-cum-Acknowledgement and other documents required to accept this Open Offer. 2. In the event that either (a) there is any litigation leading to a stay or injunction on this Open Offer or that restricts or restrains the Acquirer and/or the PAC from performing their obligations hereunder; or (b) SEBI instructing the Acquirer and/or the PAC not to proceed with this Open Offer, then this Open Offer process may not proceed or may be delayed beyond the schedule of activities indicated in this Draft Letter of Offer. Consequently, in the event of any delay, the payment of consideration to the Shareholders of the Target Company whose Shares are accepted under this Open Offer as well as the return of Shares not accepted under this Open Offer by the Acquirer and/or the PAC may get delayed. 3. The tendered Shares and documents submitted therewith would be held by the Registrar to the Open Offer till the process of acceptance of Shares tendered and payment of consideration to the Shareholders is completed. Shares cannot be withdrawn once tendered, even if the acceptance of Shares under the Open Offer and dispatch of consideration is delayed. The Shareholders will not be able to trade in such Shares which are in the custody of the Registrar to the Open Offer. During such period, there may be fluctuations in the market price of the Shares. 4. In the event that the Shares tendered in the Open Offer are more than the Shares to be acquired under this Open Offer, the acquisition of Shares from each Shareholder will be on a proportionate basis as detailed in paragraph 7.16 of this Draft Letter of Offer. Therefore, there is no certainty that all Shares tendered in the Open Offer will be accepted. 5. The Acquirer, the PAC and the Manager to the Open Offer accept no responsibility for the statements made otherwise than in the PA, the DPS, this Draft Letter of Offer or in advertisements or any materials issued by or on behalf of the Acquirer and/or the PAC and any person placing reliance on any other source of information (not released by the Acquirer, the PAC or the Manager to the Open Offer) would be doing so at their own risk. B. Relating to the Acquirer, the PAC and the Target Company 1.
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